Now Olympias, who affected these divine possessions more zealously than
 other women, and carried out these divine inspirations in wilder
 fashion, used to provide the revelling companies with great tame
 serpents, which would often lift their heads from out the ivy and the
 mystic winnowing-baskets, Sacred to Dionysus, and carried on the heads of the
 celebrants. or coil themselves about the wands and garlands
 of the women, thus terrifying the men. However, after his vision, as we are told, Philip sent Chaeron of
 Megalopolis to Delphi, by whom an oracle was brought him from Apollo,
 who bade him sacrifice to Ammon and hold that god in greatest reverence,
 but told him he was to lose that one of his eyes which he had applied to
 the chink in the door when he espied the god, in the form of a serpent,
 sharing the couch of his wife.